Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-05
THE RAILROADS.
Why DIR. Huntington will Build o Line
from Woodville to the Fort Worth
and New0rleans.
Ths Fort Worth and Denver Pushing Rap
idly for the Canadian-The Rock
Isiand-Home Notes.
Home Notes.

Captain Charles Smith, well-known
railroad conductor, formerly on the Gulf.
Colorado and Santa Fe, is in the city.
President S. W. Fordyce of the St.
Louis, Arkansas and Texas was in Texar.
kama few days ago and will, it is said,
De in Fort Worth shortly.
There are some citizens CT Brecken-
ridge, Stephens county, in Fort Worth in
regard to railroad matters, and they know
why they have come at this time.
The names of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe and of the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe are to be simplified
by railroad men hereafter OF
course the corporate names will remain
as at present, but when the
great system, combination of
two systems, is mentioned it will be
called the Atchison and Gulf. The lines
heretofore exclusively under the control
of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
will be known as the Atchison lines, and
those built by the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe as the Gulf lines. The above
information is given THE GAZETTE by a
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe official.
The track of the Fort Worth and Den
yer is only three miles from Quanah, and
400 teams are AZ work grading on 125
miles let by the Panhandle Construction
Company. 1t is said that the Southern
Kansas, now built some miles
southwest of Kiowa, Kan, will
cross the Fort Worth and Denver
IN Carson county. a gentlemen
VINO arrived in Fort Worth from
the front last night says every sec
ton of school land in Carson county has
been filed on. He also says Quanah and
the Panhandle are experiencing a good
deal of boom, and that every man in
that country swears by Fort Worth and
looks upon this city as his only trading
point.
The Atchison system is already q
strong one, but it grows stronger daily.
The following telegram from Boston ap-
pears in western paper, and shows how
the stock is looked on in that city: Atch-
ison was firmly supported on the street
to-day at from 96s to 974. A prominent
State street house took $500 shares of
It at ~, presumably. on foreign or
ders. The "street" is full of bull
talk on the stock, and points to buy all
that can be secured between now and the
18th inst are current. The real sigpifi-
SduCS VI lIlSsC 10 duu Inc
management processes ignorance Presi-
dent Strong is expected back tomorrow,
and after his conference with the direc-
tors, booked for an early date, more
light may be shed on the subject.
Fort Worth has several lines of rail-
road that penetrate the pineries, but only
one of them (the Texas and Pacific an air
line, and the pine timber reached by this
road is many miles from Us. The finest
long leaf pine and white oak country in
Texas lies not far from Crockett,
in Houston county, and an air line
extension of the Fort Worth and New
Orleans from Wsxahachie with a slight
divergence to Mexis will reach this tim
Der by building fewer miles of road than
if any other route :Were taken. Mr..
Huntington owns the Fort Worth and
New Orleans road and controls the South
ern Pacific, and Mr.. Huntington
wants to accomplish several things
which he certainly will accomplish.
He wants direct and short
line from Fort Worth and Northwest
Texas to New 0rlesns' and genuine deep
water, and this he will get by building
the road mentioned. He also wants to do